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Queer Ancestors

Commemorating Queer Ancestors is very important to the queer community. It’s vital to know our history and the people who fought for LGBTQ+ rights. Light a candle for these and other queer ancestors. More about Mark Ashton. Which queer ancestors will you honour during Hallowstide?

Yvonne Aburrow
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Commemorating Queer Ancestors is very important to the queer community.

It’s vital to know our history and the people who fought for LGBTQ+ rights.

Light a candle for these and other queer ancestors.

Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist known as the Mother of Pride. Close to my heart because she was bisexual and because Pride is important.
Marsha P Johnson, instigator of the Stonewall riot and protector of trans youth
Mark Ashton, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM).

More about Mark Ashton.

Barbara May Cameron, Hunkpapa Lakota, LGBT rights activist, founder of Gay American Indians
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, gay Pagan writer, political scientist, and philosopher, had the idea for the League of Nations which ultimately became the United Nations 🇺🇳
Sylvia Rivera
American LGBT rights activist (1951–2002)

Which queer ancestors will you honour during Hallowstide?

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